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Sweet Suffering
Illustration:
The smell of Hamilton SDA Church.
Do you notice it?
I do.
You walk in, and there is that distinct church scent.
What makes it smell the way it does?
The carpet?
The bricks?
The stained timber pews.
If one of these ingredients were missing, well it would cease to smell like Hamilton Church.
What does that scent mean to you?
What does it bring to your mind?
Thwandie and Alma’s warm welcoming smiles?
The melodies that rise from the piano as Janina plays?
Sabbath School discussions and uplifting prayer meetings?
How does it make you feel?
The sense of smell is a powerful sense.
When you smell something, the fragrance hits the olfactory, which is directly connected to the lymbic system through the brain.
This makes it essentially the most powerful sense in connection with memory.
For example, if you ride an old four stroke motorbike past me, it will sling my memory very quickly back to my Dad’s property where my brothers and I would ride motorbikes as young boys.
I distinctly remember the sound of the compression coming from the engine every time one of us would attempt to kick-start the 20 year old engines.
We’d race through the tracks, with the wind rushing through our dirty old board shorts, nicking our bear arms with the lantana that grew everywhere the eye could see.
We would park them out the front of his veranda when it came time to eat, often home-made bread from the farmer’s market with peanut butter and pure honey from Dad’s bees.
These are the vivid depictions, mingled with fond emotions that come racing to my mind when a particular mixture of oil, fuel and air come through my nostrils.
The sense of smell is powerful.
God knows that - he created us with that sense of smell.
Righteousness
Sweet Assurance
Sweet Assurance
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The Altar of Incense
And knowing how powerful he made it, He decided to use it as a tool in His Sanctuary - The place which represented His Dwelling in the camp of His people the Israelites.
In the first room of His tabernacle there was something called the altar of incense.
Illustration:
Illustration:
The smell of Hamilton SDA Church.
Did you notice it when you walked in?
I did.
What makes it smell the way it does?
The carpet?
The bricks?
The stained timber pews.
If one of these ingredients were missing, well it would cease to smell like the Hamilton Church you all know so well.
What does that scent mean to you?
What does it bring to your mind?
Thwandie and Alma’s warm welcoming smiles?
The melodies that rise from the piano as Janina plays?
Sabbath School discussions and uplifting prayer meetings?
How does it make you feel?
The sense of smell is a powerful sense.
When you smell something, the fragrance hits the olfactory, which is directly connected to the lymbic system through the brain.
This makes it essentially the most powerful sense in connection with memory.
For example, if you ride an old four stroke motorbike past me, it will sling my memory very quickly back to my Dad’s property where my brothers and I would ride motorbikes as young boys.
I distinctly remember the sound of the compression coming from the engine every time one of us would attempt to kick-start the 20 year old bikes.
We’d race through the tracks, with the wind rushing through our dirty old board shorts, nicking our bear arms with the lantana that grew everywhere the eye could see.
We would park them out the front of his veranda when it came time to eat, often home-made bread from the farmer’s market with peanut butter and pure honey from Dad’s bees.
These are the vivid depictions, mingled with fond emotions that come racing to my mind when a particular mixture of oil, fuel and air come through my nostrils.
The sense of smell is powerful.
God knows that - he created us with that sense of smell.
The smell of Hamilton SDA Church.
Did you notice it when you walked in?
I did.
What makes it smell the way it does?
The carpet?
The bricks?
The stained timber pews.
If one of these ingredients were missing, well it would cease to smell like the Hamilton Church you all know so well.
What does that scent mean to you?
What does it bring to your mind?
Thwandie and Alma’s warm welcoming smiles?
The melodies that rise from the piano as Janina plays?
Sabbath School discussions and uplifting prayer meetings?
How does it make you feel?
The sense of smell is a powerful sense.
When you smell something, the fragrance hits the olfactory, which is directly connected to the lymbic system through the brain.
This makes it essentially the most powerful sense in connection with memory.
For example, if you ride an old four stroke motorbike past me, it will sling my memory very quickly back to my Dad’s property where my brothers and I would ride motorbikes as young boys.
I distinctly remember the sound of the compression coming from the engine every time one of us would attempt to kick-start the 20 year old bikes.
We’d race through the tracks, with the wind rushing through our dirty old board shorts, nicking our bear arms with the lantana that grew everywhere the eye could see.
We would park them next to the veranda when it came time to eat, often home-made bread from the farmer’s market with peanut butter and pure honey from Dad’s bees.
These are the vivid depictions, mingled with fond emotions that come racing to my mind when a particular mixture of oil, fuel and air come through my nostrils.
The sense of smell is powerful.
God knows that - he created us with that sense of smell.
The Altar of Incense
The Altar of Incense
And knowing how powerful he made it, He decided to use it as a tool in His Sanctuary - The place which represented His Dwelling in the camp of His people the Israelites.
But before we talk about how He used it, let’s look at what would happen in the Sanctuary daily.
When someone had sinned unintentionally, they would confess their sins onto the lamb, symbolically transferring the record of their sin onto the lamb and then carried in it’s blood.
The sin was then symbolically carried into the sanctuary in the blood and sprinkled before the veil and put on the horns of the altar of incense.
What do you think would happen as that blood builds up in that place?
It would start to stink, right?
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